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After a long break from my last Macross/Mecha kit building (as well as my hobby life), Somehow I managed to come back to it!
I've always wanted to make this custom build, but I had a couple of reasons I didn't start until now. The biggest reason was my fear of paint wearing and chipping on transforming kit, but I might have found some solution - which is not fully tested yet.
Anyways, the below image is my project plan.
Basically, my goal with this project is to
make it like Hasegawa 1/48 or Club-M resin kit - while keeping the ability to transform between 3 modes
add details where it's safe
add lights where it's possible and make sense.
use metal where it makes sense for texture or it need strength
The base kit will be either VF-1J or VF-1S that I bought from HLJ during 'Panic buying frenzy'
I haven't decided which one it will be yet. It could be
My favorite first TV Hikaru VF-1J - but cockpit design is not as cool as movie ones, and doesn't go with cool launch arm (that I'm planning to build later..)
Movie Focker VF-1S Super Valkyrie - All good except that I'm not a big fan of S head design
Movie Hikaru VF-1S Strike - it's the final battle model - All good except that I'm not a big fan of S head design
I'll decide as I go..
By the way, I've been buying some supplies and parts for this mod for a while now. Below is a some part of it
So.. according to my plan, I'll be doing some major work on the wings, chest block, backpack(?) and cockpit area. So I've made silicon mold to start copying those parts. My workflow will be 'recast - cutout/rework - recast those parts'..etc
Also I found a cool mechanical hand parts that I can use. Size is between 2 hand types that comes with Yamato 1/60. Design is a little different, so I need to work on that.
That's it for now, but I started it at last!! I can only work on this over the weekend nights, so it will be very slow process..